Herald: Carr re: Gross

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" If all else fails, Todd, do what everyone else does. Go to work at NECN. To paraphrase Gen. MacArthur, old anchors with lousy Q ratings never die, they just fade away at NECN. And by the way, Todd, all your fans know that you wouldn’t have blown the forecast for yesterday’s big "storm." Not with sweeps being over, anyway."

Also in the Herald: "“It’s Old Man Winter, one. Pete Bouchard, nothing,” said WHDH-TV meteorologist Pete Bouchard, who predicted 1 to 3 inches of snow in the Boston area and 4 to 9 inches on Cape Cod.
As Boston woke up to the winter wonderland that wasn’t yesterday morning, area meteorologists issued slushy “mea culpas” as they cautiously got to work predicting more snow for Friday."

 

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> Registration required (free for subscribers, like me)
http> ://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=115877
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>
> " If all else fails, Todd, do what everyone else does. Go to
> work at NECN. To paraphrase Gen. MacArthur, old anchors with
> lousy Q ratings never die, they just fade away at NECN. And
> by the way, Todd, all your fans know that you wouldn’t have
> blown the forecast for yesterday’s big "storm." Not with
> sweeps being over, anyway."
>
> Also in the Herald: "“It’s Old Man Winter, one. Pete
> Bouchard, nothing,” said WHDH-TV meteorologist Pete
> Bouchard, who predicted 1 to 3 inches of snow in the Boston
> area and 4 to 9 inches on Cape Cod.
> As Boston woke up to the winter wonderland that wasn’t
> yesterday morning, area meteorologists issued slushy “mea
> culpas” as they cautiously got to work predicting more snow
> for Friday."
>
Nice! Pete's problem is that he lacks the "gravitas" that a lead weather anchor
needs. Especially in a true "weather market".

With respect to the storm, the weather service was wrong, and they miscalculated certain things from the weather models. Obviously, Pete follows the NWS forecast (a.k.a. the party line) rather closely. It's the safe way to go, but it also shows us how a meteorologist was just replaced by a weatherman. The NWS is sometimes wrong - and a decent met can tell when it's time to adjust the forecast accordingly.

 

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Could someone who subscribes to the herald copy the text of that column and post it here, please?

 

[raccoonradio]

> Could someone who subscribes to the herald copy the text of
> that column and post it here, please?
>
I can't do that here (copyrighted material) but I'll _temporarily_ put it on
my site:

http://microfurry.250free.com/hc.html

 

[fnxfan]

Thanks very much! Much appreciated.

 

[raccoonradio]

> Thanks very much! Much appreciated.
>
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